While expressing deep anguish over the detention of I-flex’s London-based CEO and other employees in London and the Netherlands, Nasscom on Saturday urged the Dutch government for an early resolution of the case. In a letter to the Dutch Ambassador here, Nasscom president Kiran Karnik has sought his intervention on the issue for immediate redressal.It was a common practice for IT product companies like I-flex to send their employees to sort out customer problems using a business visa and not a work permit, it said. If authorities felt the I-flex staff were on incorrect visas, it could have been taken up in a ‘‘more professional and less peremptory manner’’, the letter said. These companies were different from IT service firms whose employees work for extended period in customer premises, writing programmes or providing software support services. Describing such action as unacceptable, he said if there was a view that employees of company in question had incorrect visas, it was arguable and at worst a technicality.
